{"id":1697,"date":"2011-07-28T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T11:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2011-07-28T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T11:43:14","slug":"voronoi-tiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/28\/voronoi-tiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Voronoi Tiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Coloured_Voronoi_3D_slice.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"This is a slice of the Voronoi diagram of a ra...\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/300px-Coloured_Voronoi_3D_slice.png?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"This is a slice of the Voronoi diagram of a ra...\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>As most of you may or may not know, I love maths. I recently discovered\u00a0Matt Henderson&#8217;s site:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.matthen.com\/\">blog.matthen.com<\/a>, and love his posts.<\/p>\n<p>As he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I post original stuff about\u00a0maths,\u00a0space,\u00a0<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Computational linguistics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computational_linguistics\" rel=\"wikipedia\">computational linguistics<\/a>\u00a0and other things that I\u00a0like. This blog is meant to be\u00a0accessible\u00a0andinteresting\u00a0to people of all backgrounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, for a lot of his posts, you don&#8217;t need to be a mathematician, but it helps! His recent post about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.matthen.com\/post\/7812323039\/you-can-create-some-really-cool-patterns-using\" target=\"_blank\">Voronoi tiling<\/a>\u00a0(an example of which is the coloured mess you see here) was both interesting and fascinating, and contained a pretty picture! More specifically it&#8217;s about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chaos theory\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaos_theory\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Chaos Theory<\/a> and trying to represent patterns seen in nature using <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mathematics\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematics\" rel=\"wikipedia\">mathematics<\/a> &#8211; something I am interested in (my dissertation was all about it back in the day).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, visit him if you get the chance &#8211; have a look around and see the magnificence!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you may or may not know, I love maths. I recently discovered\u00a0Matt Henderson&#8217;s site:\u00a0blog.matthen.com, and love his posts. As he says: I post original stuff about\u00a0maths,\u00a0space,\u00a0computational linguistics\u00a0and other things that I\u00a0like. This blog is meant to be\u00a0accessible\u00a0andinteresting\u00a0to people of all backgrounds. Now, for a lot of his posts, you don&#8217;t need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[98,639,757,1647,1909,1914,3011,3130,3187,3188],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage","category-maths","tag-98","tag-chaos-theory","tag-computational-linguistics","tag-july","tag-math","tag-matt-henderson","tag-tile","tag-united-states","tag-voronoi","tag-voronoi-diagram","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-rn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}